On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 20:41 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Wait though -- is it not safe to assume that a zero length filehandle
> is invalid?
>
> Neil's earlier patch checked for entry->fh.size == 0, would it not be
> reasonable to warn once per server when we get back such a fh?
The point is that sanity checking of filehandles by the client is a
totally _insane_ concept. Yes we can do it for a couple of corner cases.
No, we sure as hell do NOT want to get stuck doing it for the general
case.
Trond
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